Metals service centers · Illinois

01 - Chicago

Bedford Park, IL · ~207 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

01 - Chicago runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Metals service centers workplace, earning a grade D.

01 - Chicago: 2.9 TCR = 131% of Metals service centers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

01 - Chicago safety composite

01 - Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

01 - Chicago held a steady TCR band

01 - Chicago's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.9 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Bedford Park, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.9 · 131% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #32/107
  • PHOTO Earle M. Jorgensen C…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~207 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Earle M. Jorgensen Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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01 - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 01 - Chicago averages 2.9 TCR (131% of the Metals service centers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

01 - Chicago TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=2.1 · BLS 2.2

Where 01 - Chicago falls in its industry

1,299 Metals service centers establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 107 Metals service centers employers in Illinois.

01 - Chicago (207 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 01 - Chicago
01 - Chicago (207 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

01 - Chicago has more employees than the Metals service centers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2019 2.1 1.3 5 0 0
2018 2.5 0.8 6 0 0
2017 5.1 2.3 11 0 0
2016 1.9 0.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · Bedford Park

1,299 Metals service centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 140 employers in Bedford Park, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Earle M. Jorgensen Company 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Viking Materials Franklin Park 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Livingston Pipe & Tube, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Tube and Bar, Inc 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2065-Farmer City, IL 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glenbard 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago - Pezza 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cresco Labs - Joliet 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDWPW9669 MDW - OPS 1,757 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILBED - BEDFORD PARK 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR BEDFORD PARK (ILBED) 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161546-SOUTH SUBURBAN IL P&DC 834 FTE
NAT-TCR Great Plains of Republic County DBA Republic County Hospital 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilldrup Companies - Orlando 668 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pposbc- Adm Sa 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Klf Enterprises Inc 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE SLU Sportservice, LLC 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boardman Foods Incorporated 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE North American Headquarters 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE PFT-DAYTON 207 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.